Florida International University and the Florida Department of Health have signed an agreement intending to relocate the departments Miami-Dade headquarters to FIU-University Park.
The new building, to be completed in 2010, is expected to house a new clinic and labs where FIU faculty and students will work along side Department of Health practitioners, doctors and researchers. The estimated $27 million, 94,000-square-foot building is planned to go up near the northeast edge of University Park in west Miami-Dade County, adjacent to the new College of Medicine. The FIU College of Medicine, which will have an innovative curriculum based on a community-centered approach to medicine, is expected to admit its first class in the fall of 2009.
